A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources

A11y Cat: digital accessibility resources

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Ableist interactions
Ableist interactions
This week, a product launched and claimed to generate “production ready” code. But it also generates code with accessibility problems, which contradicts “production ready”. When someone called this out publicly, a community showed itself from its worst side. What can we learn?
Bad Practices#English#Ableism
·hidde.blog·
Ableist interactions
Design Under Pressure
Design Under Pressure

We design with ideal conditions in mind, but the world is far from ideal.

Design Under Pressure is a practical resource center to help you and your team proactively create products and services that hold up under stress cases.

Ethical Design#English
·simplysecure.org·
Design Under Pressure
Building UX research practices for inclusion
Building UX research practices for inclusion
Join Maureen, former behavioral researcher turned UXR, and Josh, an accessibility lead at Veterans Affairs, for a deep dive into the common pitfalls of inclusive UX research from the projection bias of expert testers to the unequal distribution of power during analysis.
Join Maureen, former behavioral researcher turned UXR, and Josh, an accessibility lead at Veterans Affairs, for a deep dive into the common pitfalls of inclusive UX research from the projection bias of expert testers to the unequal distribution of power during analysis. They’ll share actionable guidance on how to further mature an inclusive research practice from purposeful sampling strategies to intersectional awareness and equitable hiring practices.
Inclusive Design#English#Videos#Youtube#Inclusive Design 24#UX Research#Inclusion
·youtube.com·
Building UX research practices for inclusion
An inclusive design workflow for teams
An inclusive design workflow for teams
In this talk, Scott Vinkle will share his experience while working with Shopify's Flagship Themes team. Scott will explain how he implemented a new team-wide workflow which included accessibility in each aspect of the product creation lifecycle. This resulted in the team shipping highly accessible themes by default.
Strategic Accessibility#English#Videos#Youtube#Inclusive Design 24#Team Work#Project Management
·youtube.com·
An inclusive design workflow for teams
Making the web a more welcoming place for minority languages
Making the web a more welcoming place for minority languages
In this talk I will instead focus on some of the smaller steps that we as designers and technologists can take to make the web a more inclusive and welcoming place for our minority language users.
The technical challenges for minority languages can seem insurmountable; research & development is often market driven, and by definition, minority languages can’t promise large profits to Big Tech and so are overlooked. However, in this talk I will instead focus on some of the smaller steps that we as designers and technologists can take to make the web a more inclusive and welcoming place for our minority language users.
Writing & Language#English#Videos#Youtube#Inclusive Design 24#Minority Languages
·youtube.com·
Making the web a more welcoming place for minority languages
Really inclusive online conferences
Really inclusive online conferences
In this presentation I'll look at the decisions that went into our efforts to make our conferences as inclusive as possible, with particular focus on our accessibility efforts–including our ARIA Live Region based accessible slides system, that makes one of the least accessible aspects of any presentation, slides, as accessible as possible.
Running Workshops, Meetings & Events#Videos#Youtube#English#Inclusive Design 24#Virtual Meetings
·youtube.com·
Really inclusive online conferences
Web accessibility design recommendations for people with cognitive disabilities
Web accessibility design recommendations for people with cognitive disabilities
This article conducts a review of the current understanding of experts in the field as exemplified by Web design guidelines. It provides current Web design recommendations that have achieved a high degree of agreement as well as four recommendations for implementation.
Cognitive Accessibility#English#Research Papers#Scientific Research
·researchgate.net·
Web accessibility design recommendations for people with cognitive disabilities
Designing Accessible Learning Content
Designing Accessible Learning Content
Considered the ‘standard work in our field’ and ‘a must read for all eLearning professionals,’ Designing Accessible Learning Content by eLaHub Director Susi Miller is a comprehensive guide to ensuring learning content conforms to best-practice accessibility standards and complies with legal requirements.
Designing Accessible Learning Content
Books#English#E-learning#LinkedIn Learning
·elahub.net·
Designing Accessible Learning Content
Helperbird
Helperbird
Helperbird is a browser extension that gives you the features to make the web more accessible and you more productive. Providing you with dyslexia fonts, dyslexia support, text to speech, overlays, dyslexia ruler, immersive reader, Reading Mode, annotations and more.
Assistive Technology#English#Assistive Technology#Browser Plugins
·helperbird.com·
Helperbird
Born Accessible Publishing
Born Accessible Publishing
Below are a few resources to help publishers and the myriad of other new, digital content creators understand the basics of how to make content born accessible. These resources highlight the challenges that images, interactivity, math equations and other complex features pose, but also demonstrate how they can be addressed.
Non-HTML Documents & Books#English#EPUB#Publishing#Ebooks
·diagramcenter.org·
Born Accessible Publishing
Accessible Math
Accessible Math
Making math accessible means providing multiple ways for students to interact with math content, including equations, graphs, and other notation.
Writing & Language#English#Math
·diagramcenter.org·
Accessible Math